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[How many days has this been going on, again? He isn't even sure any more. He sleeps, but it's not restful because he wakes up in another version of Wonderland every time and he's awake the whole time there and-- ay dios mio, everything's a mess. He's exhausted and has taken to mainlining coffee when he's awake just to attempt to function.

And misery loves company, right?]

Does anybody else feel like time and sleep have both lost all meaning by now? Because I'm not sure I know what either of them are any more. This has to end sometime, doesn't it? Come be miserably awake with me, Wonderland. At least if we're talking, we aren't sleeping and at least it's on our own terms. Or something. I don't know, I'm tired, come keep me virtual company.

[ooc; just so y'all know, if I make public posts, everyone feel free to threadjack everywhere to everyone all the time. I love that shit. Blow it up. I welcome it.]

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What can I say? I'm a giver.

I don't think that's a word many people would use for you.

People can change.

Around here, not as if there's stuff worth taking.

When you can get anything you want from a closet, it really must take the fun out of it, anyway.

Precisely. You're so quick on the uptake.

[Sarcasm? Probably.]

Not a lot to plot, around here.

Shame, that. [Two can play the sarcasm game, Snart.] I'm sure you find other ways to entertain yourself, though. [Not to mention he obviously has his hands full with this...situation with Mick right now.]

Oh yeah, kid. [Look, lack of entertainment mostly isn't the issue.]

Practically knock myself out with all the fun I'm having.

Any time you wanna stop calling me kid would be great. For the record. Just putting that out there. [Have a line-face, Leonard. He's not a kid. :|

He can't help the slight half-eyeroll at that.] Yeah, that's always fun.

Fair enough, Cisco. Ramon. Sir?

[Now that just made it easier to tease.]

Hilarious. Good to see you haven't gotten any matching bruises.

[Which can only mean one thing.]

Started a new project?

Ha-ha. You're a regular comedian. [Always playing right into making things worse for himself: A Cisco Ramon Story.]

Yeah, I got lucky. [A beat. A Look.] Maybe.

[He changes the video's setting to private and maybe the tone of his voice changes just the smallest bit. Softens, for lack of a better word.]

It's fine. I doubt he'll hurt anyone but me in the next time.

[Cisco kind of wishes he didn't notice the change. It was small, could easily be missed, but...he notices anyway. He pretends he doesn't.]

Maybe. But that's not perfectly ideal either, you know. [What? Leonard may be...Leonard, but it doesn't mean he thinks the guy deserves to have the life beat out of him every time Mick sees him or something.]

Eh. He has it out of his system for now. Don't go soft on me. Trust me, I earned that one.

[And then some. Mick's not without blame, but the majority lies with him, even more so since Leonard takes responsibility for Mick's mistakes anyway. It's a lot of guilt.]

Yeah, til the next time he sees you or something else equally dramatic. [He perks a brow at that middle bit, though.] Comparatively speaking, haven't I always been soft? [He shrugs.] I'll take your word for it.

Eh. He's more likely to be passive aggressive. He's great at that. [It's also somehow worse. He prefers the direct course of action to the damn remarks.] Course you're soft. But not on me, why would you?

I can see it. [Cisco can't deny he has his moments with it, too. Oops?

He shrugs a little at the question..] I dunno.

[Lies. But he's not about to admit it's because of what he saw when they were suddenly their younger selves on another plane of existence. Nope. Will he ever get past seeing that part of Leonard? Cisco's pretty sure the answer is a big N-O.]

Get lucky enough to be in the same room as us any time soon and you can see it live. [Another thing he doesn't need a repeat of, but in a way there's almost a kind of familiarity to it.]

You ain't a good liar, anyone ever told you that?

Not exactly looking for front-row seats to the dissolve of a decades-deep friendship.

[Look. He has a very specific view of the way friends and friendships work and in the past, they don't tend to pan out that great for him. And even if they were criminals, Leonard and Mick kind of had that almost-perfect ideal of friendship--sort of, you know, in the broadstrokes of how well they know each other and operate together like a well-oiled machine--that Cisco's always wanted and maybe actually has with Caitlin and Barry now.

But if these two, who have been through everything they've been through together, could fall apart after multiple decades, what did that say for Cisco? Maybe they weren't perfect, and Cisco wouldn't say he exactly strives for the exact kind of relationship there is--was?--between them, but in all the ways that mattered it was solid and seemed like the steady sort of thing you could always count on existing...and he's not really okay with that kind of thing potentially disappearing.]

Yeah, well, anyone ever tell you you're too good of one? [Terrible counter. True. But still terrible. Not made any better by the little huffy arms-folded-across-his-chest actions that followed, either.]

If it helps you, we kind of worked through it eventually. Partly. He's just not there yet. [A shrug.] Timelines.

[Did they work through it? In a way, perhaps. He wonders if Mick will ever forgive him, he knows he won't forgive himself. But they synced up again, for a while there, before he had to go full circle. Only one way he'd ever not have come back for him.]

Too good a liar? [He has to smirk, even if self-depreciating, given the current topic.] Often. Comes with the territory.

It's always timelines. [No, he's not bitter. What?

Pfft. Have an eyeroll.] Yeah, no kidding.

You would be burned by that.

[He talks to the Flash.]

What's your view on spoilers?

I have issues with time. [For reasons.]

I dunno... on one hand, it seems dangerous because of my own past experiences... but also everyone says nobody remembers anything you learn here if you're sent back. [He pauses and tilts his head slightly.] ...why? What do you have to tell me? [Because curiosity definitely killed the cat.]

Join the club. [Less exclusive than one might think.

He pauses at the question. What did he have to tell him? Nothing. However...]

You get rich and successful and marry a model, gender unspecified. Just go with the flow.

[A roll of his eyes and he does some actual clarification.]

Nothing about you. Though if I did and it was bad, but it's true that you can't change nothing, won't remember back home, would you really wanna know?

[He rolls his eyes at that. Yeah, right, in what universe?

But that question, even as a hypothetical, carries a big weight. He's silent as he considers it.]

I don't know... [Not the most helpful answer, but honest, at least.] If it would make something more understandable, more clear....maybe? But...I dunno, with...without any chance of changing it...what's the point? I mean. I think-- if I knew that you knew something and that it wasn't anything good and you weren't telling me-- [He nods a little.] yeah, I'd probably wanna know, but... if I had no idea [He shrugs, looking helpless as he grasps for the words.] I don't know, you know, telling somebody something terrible waits for them and there's no escape, nothing they can do to fix it...I don't know if, if I was in your shoes, if I could put that kind of weight on somebody. Especially somebody I care about.

[It's a lot of speculative babble and it's not helpful, really, in giving a definitive answer either, but it's the truth. At least, as Cisco sees it.]

Yeah. Just gotta wonder how much of that is selfish. Not wanting to deal with the consequences. [He's already dealing with consequences. His whole body is. But having to deal with being the one to tell Mick what's going to happen? That was a great deal worse than some bruises.]

There's no definite answer. Thanks for your input. But, say, you're a smart one. Do you think there's any way whatever happens here could affect our timelines back home?

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